1. This is what the Lord said to me: ‘Go and buy a linen belt and put it round your waist, but do not let it touch water.’
2. So I bought a belt, as the Lord directed, and put it round my waist.
3. Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time:
4. ‘Take the belt you bought and are wearing round your waist, and go now to Perath and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.’